Works Presented

RHETORIC-Hill of the PNIX

Videoinstallation 2017 (with vinyl adhesive from the map of the Pnix and metal sculptures inspired by desk for the speaker. originally there are also a stone with the word "Bema" engraved in it-the Bema was used as an orator's platform in the ancien world)

Roter Salon im Palais am Festungsgraben. Berlin

RHETORIC – Hill of the PNIX marks the end of Youssef
Tabti’s Istanbul trilogy. The work revolves around the theme of freedom
of speech and democracy. Only the first two parts, however, could be
completed in Istanbul. After the coup attempt in 2016, Tabti had to
relocate the project to a neighbouring country – Greece. In Athens
met with Christos Yannaras, a theologian and philosopher whose theses
have caused controversy far beyond Greece. In the centre of the Pnix,
the place of popular assemblies in ancient Athens, Yannaras reminds us
of the rhetoric art of democracy and thus sensitizes us for the current
threat to freedom of expression.

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YOUSSEF TABTI - born in Paris. lives since 1994 in Hamburg

French artist with Algerian roots.
Current political topics are of high importance in his artwork. His work includes a series of creative and social aspects. He wants to invite spectators and listeners to focus their attention towards art and politics at the same time. It is an attempt to dissolve the barriers of past and present in relation to arts and political topics.